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Chapter 13

Bella's POV

I could feel it all around me, the trees which stretched towards the sky, the grass beneath my feet which was still wet from the rain and the eagle sitting in the tree right in front of me. Not a sound was heard, not even a small breeze from the wind. No animals or insects, nothing living except the trees, myself and the eagle for as far as I could feel. The silence was heavy, pressing over my ears and I was nearly begging for any sound to be uttered or heard. Still I kept silent and I waited. I knew I had to. Then suddenly the eagle flew towards me and landed on my shoulder, the sweeping sound from his wings so silent that I could not pick it up. I felt how he looked at me; I could feel his gratitude as he gently stroked my cheek with his beak. I could feel what he wanted to tell me, the air was vibrating with his wish, he wanted me to find it once more, to finally…

Bella

The soft voice and my name, the sudden sound, shattered the world around me as the eagle lifted from my shoulder, its claws digging into my skin. I felt how my heart started beating faster as I tried to stay with the eagle and I tried to fight against the light which my consciousness was now dragging me towards. When I reached the surface it felt as if I had been under water for too long and I drew a deep breath, sitting up in my bed as I felt someone holding me against his stone hard chest. Calming myself down and closing my eyes I leaned into him. Edward.

"Bad dream?" He asked as his hand slowly moved up and down my back as my heartbeat started to slow down.

"I don't know, I don't think so." To be honest I didn't really know if the dream meant something good or something bad, it was all very fussy actually. "Why did you wake me, by calling my name I mean?"

I buried my nose into my love's chest and drew in his sent, I wasn't angry at him, just curious. To my surprise Edward became confused at my question and I leaned back a little looking up at him as he studied my face.

"I did not wake you, I saw that you started to stir and you were talking about silence but I never called your name Bella." I could tell he was telling the truth and I was too tired to bury myself in thoughts so I simply shrugged my shoulders and leaned back into Edward as I suddenly remembered something which made me groan.

"I forgot about school today." I whined as Edward chuckled at my dismay and kissed me lightly on the head. In return I hit him playfully on his chest but I couldn't help smiling. How did he always mange to get me into a better mood?

"You should feel sorry for me when I am miserable." I pouted at him and with a grin I felt how Edward looked down at me. "Plus you are going to school as well." I added the last part hoping his grin would fall, but it only got bigger. What now?

"Sorry love but today is one of rare days the sun is out so I will go "camping" with my family." I just stared at him, knowing that he was telling the truth since the Cullen's had told me they went away hunting on the rare occasions when the sun shone since they couldn't be seen in the sunlight. But that meant I would have to be separated from Edward a whole day and I would have to go to school, having to endure Tyler Crowley and Lauren Mallory. No way in hell.

"I am sick." I said.

"No you are not."

"Yes I am, very, very sick, I can't go to school today."

"Bella, unlike us, this is your first time in High School. You can't play hooky. Plus you can't come with us while we go hunting." Edward told me with a frown and his voice stated that he wasn't going to change his mind. With a huff I crossed my arms and turned my back at him, earning another chuckle.

"You are cute when you are angry." Edward started playing with my hair and I could feel his amusement in the room.

"Am not." Okay now I was really starting to act like a five year old and I wasn't. I was a seventeen, nearly eighteen, year old young women who… Well that was an idea wasn't it? Not that I had ever tried it before but I had never really needed to either and it couldn't be that hard could it? I mean Edward already said that he loved me so…

With a small smile I carefully turned around so I could face my vampire sitting behind me and I immediately sensed how he tensed at the look on my face, his eyes traveling all over my face, reading my expression. With a feeling of confidence I let my hands travel up his arms and started stroking his chest as I moved towards him. To my great pleasure he feel back on the bead, with a shocked expression on his face and, with a confidence I didn't know I had, I slowly crept up over him so I was straddling his waist. Slowly I leaned down so that my hair fell down as a curtain around us, shutting out the outside world. Finally I started placing feather light kisses along his neck.

"You are really sure I am not feeling a little ill today?" I asked him and I felt him shiver as my lips ghosted over his neck when I spoke. "If I was, we could spend the whole day together, just you and me, alone." I whispered out the last word close to his ear. "No Tyler to think of me, no Emmett to make fun of us, no Alice to take me from you, just us alone in our meadow. Don't tell me you don't want that, me all for yourself."

The air around us was boiling and I knew that if Edward didn't give in soon, I would leave my plan of seduction and kiss him. Still, for some reason, I loved the feeling of complete power and control I now had. Edward was lying beneath me, trying to collect his thoughts and I knew that if I just waited I would get my whish through. And the way he was looking at me! It was as if I was the most beautiful being on this earth and the mesmerized look on his face… it felt wonderful.

"Please Edward." I asked him as I allowed my lips to ghost over his, and that was all it took. Before I had time to understand what had happened, I was lying with my back on my bead, with Edward hovering over me as his lips greedily moved against my own. Soaring on the high of my success and the feeling of his lips shut out the world around me. I was on fire, burning everywhere, feeling how the fire increased where we touched. When his lips moved down to kiss my neck I was breathing heavily, panting as his ice cold mouth continued placing kisses down to my chest. The feeling made me shiver and the need of feeling his lips made me whimper a little. Without hesitation Edward moved back to kiss me once again, but before he had the chance I hastily shook my head.

"Am I healthy enough to go to school today?"

"I would personally drag you home again." He said between pants before his lips returned where they belonged.

Staring down in my bowl of cereal I could feel Edward looking at me. I had already called Charlie, who in return had called the school and said I was sick for the day. If Charlie thought it was strange I managed to get sick the same day as the Cullens were free from school he at least didn't say anything about it. I never liked lying to my father but sometimes I had to.

"You know, I have always thought of you as an angel…" Edward suddenly said from across from across the table, still watching me. Playing around with my cereal I didn't look up, just smiled in return.

"Really? I like that."

"I am glad to hear it, but now I am starting to wonder if you are not a vixen considering what happened before." This, however, made me look up and I felt Edward smile when he saw my face. Within a second I was in his arms, flying over the floor before he sat me down on the kitchen table, looking into my eyes.

"No you can't be a vixen" He said has his eyes bore into my own and I felt my cheeks heat up, "you are too pure and kind. To good. You must be an angel, an angel with power over all that is loveable and can stun you with all that she is." It sounded as he was talking to himself, but the words didn't get any less meaning. Warmth filled every single part of me and to my surprise I felt a tear roll down my cheek. I had never been a person who cried, but since I came here I had been doing that a lot. Edward placed his hand over my cheek and stroked the tear away with his thumb; carefully he then gave me a light kiss where the tear had been.

"What did I do to deserve you?" He whispered still staring into my eyes. In my chest it felt as if my heart was going to burst with love when the doorbell suddenly rang and the moment was broken. I gasped for a breath I hadn't known I was holding and when Edward let his hand fall, taking a step back, it felt as if a part of me left with him. Needing his contact I took his hand in mine and went to open the front door where I felt a small basket standing. When I opened the door, I felt a car driving away before I leaned down and picked up the basket which I could feel was filled with food and that there was a small note on it. This I gave to Edward.

"It´s from my family, Alice saw us walking out to the meadow today and Esme wanted to make sure I didn't forget that you need to eat." With a small laugh at the lightly irritated look on my love's face, I stood on my tiptoes and gave him a small kiss on his cheek.

"No need to look so grumpy." I told him.

"Perhaps, but it's not like I would have forgotten about that." He muttered, making me sigh.

"Don't you think I should be insulted since your family obviously thinks that I, who actually need to eat, should forget about that tiny thing?" I felt how he studied my face.

"But you are not insulted." He said sounding confused which made me giggle.

"No, I think it is cute." To be honest it actually felt good having a motherly figure care for me in a normal way since Renee either had been extremely overprotecting or dropping all responsibility allowing it to fall on me.

"Well then I am insulted for you." Edward said, making me shake my head as I wrapped my arms around him.

"You be so."

"How can you not like the Lord of the Rings?" Edward exclaimed. Around us birds were singing and I could feel the sun warming my skin as we lay in the meadow on the blanket Esme had been kind to put down along with the food.

"I have already told you, I love the books but I just can't love the movies. I think I would actually have to see the characters and the actors to be able to love it. Plus they left out Tom Bombadill." It was amazing that our first argument as a couple would be over the Lord of the Rings, and that it actually wasn't even an argument.

"Tom Bombadill? He wasn't even vital for the story."

"He was an interesting character and he proved himself to be more powerful than the Ring when he put it on and he didn't disappear. He was stronger than the Ring and therefore also stronger than anyone else since everyone, even the elves, got affected by it." I knew I had won that one, but Edward hadn't given up.

"Okay, I can agree with you there, but have you seen the movies?"

"I have listened to them, and I'll tell you, did not like them. Legolas has a really nice voice though." I said with a sly grin and Edward shoot me a sour look.

"Take it back." He said as I popped a strawberry into my mouth.

"Nope." I simply said, making sure to pop the "p".

"Then you are in trouble." Suddenly I was being tickled all over and I started laughing loudly.

"Take it back." Edward told me as he kept on tickling me.

"No, no, no, no." I managed to get out between laughs, but in the end I had to surrender, promising to take my comment back. Edward stopped tickling me and looked down at me with a huge smile on his face; he was so going to get it.

"I, Isabella Marie Swan, admit that the man I love, Edward Anthony Masen Cullen, has a much smoother and more wonderful voice than any other being in this world. I would not want to go one day without hearing it or being without him." I felt how Edward finally allowed me to push us around so that he was no longer holding me down, leaning forward I then whispered in his ear: "But Legolas still has one of the most beautiful human voices I have heard."

With those words I darted up from our spot on the blanket and began running before Edward woke up and realized what I truly had said. With a small scream I felt how he flew up from the blanket as well and started chasing after me as I quickened my speed and flew over the ground. Even though I knew Edward could catch me in a few seconds, the game we were suddenly playing still made me laugh loudly as he chased me across the meadow. We were trying to outmaneuver each other, darting through the trees. Both of our laughter's echoed through the woods and my breath, unlike Edward's, were coming out in pants. I was truly using all of my skill and vision trying to keep away from him, and a few times I could feel his movement when he was trying to grab a hold of me, giving me just enough time to dart under his arm or making a spin so he couldn't catch me, each time earning a small growl from him which made me laugh.

Then he simply picked up the pace and swept me off the ground, making me scream loudly in joy, spinning us both around in circles as I rested my forehead against his and squealed at the feeling. Back on the ground, I looked up at his face, beaming with happiness and I could tell he was smiling down at me with the same expression. Just like in the kitchen earlier, it felt as if I should burst from the happiness inside of me. For some reason it felt as if all that I was feeling when I was with Edward was too much for my human body to handle. As if it wasn't strong enough to contain all of the happiness he brought to me, and all of love I felt for him. I literally loved him so much that it hurt, but I loved the feeling.

"What did I do to deserve you?" It was the same question as in the kitchen, but this time I had an answer.

"You were and still are the most loveable and loving person on this earth. The real question is; what did I do to deserve you?"

"Bella, my Bella." He whispered as he kissed the top of my head, his lips resting there.

"I love you Edward, dear God I love you so much that it hurts. Where were you before I met you?" I felt his arms around me, holding me to his body even closer, still it wasn't enough; I could never be too close to him.

"I waited for you, only you. I am just sorry I could not wait for you as a human, without this curse." I felt his sorrow, and I couldn't stand it. He should be happy; he should know he wasn't cursed, that he was perfect.

"It is no curse! If you hadn't been changed, we never would have met and just the bare thought of it makes my heart break. It is not a curse, because if vampires hadn't existed Carlisle never would have met Esme, Rose had never fallen in love with Emmett and Alice and Jasper would have been lost to each other. It is not a curse! It brought us together. It is not a curse; it is a blessing." I whispered out the last part and even though I could tell Edward didn't agree with me fully he still looked down at my face with astonishment.

"It is no curse, it is a blessing." He whispered, and I felt how a weight lifted from his shoulders and the mesmerized look on his face held me in place as he carefully stroked my cheek. Sighing I closed my eyes and leaned into his palm as I felt completely at peace. It was amazing really that touching like this could give so much. For a long time I had, always unwillingly, heard other girls talking about the intimate physical relationship they had with their partner and that they still did not feel loved. Sure I wanted a physical relationship with Edward, but I didn't really need it to know how much he loved me. The way the always looked at, the way his face lit up when he felt my presence and the spark between us told me better than anything else in the world how much he loved me. Now just standing here together in the meadow, holding each other was enough for me to know he loved me.

Then a sudden feeling of tiredness came over me and with a strong tug at Edward's arm, we walked back to lie down on the blanket in the middle of the meadow. With a content sigh I rested my head on his chest as I closed my eyes, his fingers moving through my hair. The silence was calm and loving, the warmth of the sun comforting. As the time passed I felt how my breaths became slower and slower, as the worlds started to dim away. Edward was the only thing that stayed with me as I fell into the same dream I had had this morning.

Edward's POV

I heard how my angels breaths became slower and slower as she slowly fell to sleep. Looking at her beautiful face in the sunlight I couldn't help to get mesmerized by her beauty. It was as if she was sculpture which God himself had been working to perfection. In the sun the red strings in her hair was more visible than before and somehow it was almost as if her skin was glowing. It was nothing like a vampire's sparkling, but it was still as if the sun was making my angels skin glow from within, and it was beautiful.

I also loved the fact that Bella trusted me so much that she could fall asleep with me here in the middle of nowhere. To leave yourself so unprotected and give yourself away so completely to another person, especially one who was designed to kill you, showed how deeply she trusted me. And I knew Bella trusted me and my self control more than I did, still I didn't complain, I could never get tired of watching her sleeping. When she slept her face relaxed in a way which it rarely did when she was awake. The change was so small I knew that not even anyone in my family had noticed it, but since I had memorized Bella's every line I could see it. Bur for some strange reason her face didn't relax this time and even though I tried to understand I didn't know what caused this small sign of distress.

My left hand moved on its own as I felt the need to touch my angel and it started brushing through her hair which to my great joy lead to me seeing how a small smile spread over her delicate lips.

It surprised me that I was able to love anyone as much as I loved Bella, in my whole vampire existence my family had always been the ones I put first. I had been ready to sacrifice myself for them, but not anymore. I still loved them and would fight for them as long as I could, but if I would have to choose between my family and Bella, I knew what I would choose. I could never allow Bella to get hurt, even if it meant having to leave my family behind or, to my own hatred, having them killed. A big part of me was ashamed and hated the fact that I would be able to turn my back towards the family I loved, but an even bigger part of me knew that my whole existence now was centered around the beautiful angel asleep whom was asleep in my arms.

I had been forewarned by my family about how it would feel when I found my mate, how the things I treasured before should fall behind a veil and no longer seem as important as they did before. That the things I loved to create, like music, would become affected and inspired to some degree by the person I was destined to be with. I had seen it among my family members for so long, still I had never truly believed in it, until now. All I did I somehow did so that Bella could be happy about it, or remind me of her, to some degree. Suddenly I noticed how my angel stirred a little in her sleep, the movement was barley there, but I noticed it.

Afraid that my cold skin would was cooling her down; I carefully wrapped Bella in my arms before I moved as fast as I could, freeing the blanket beneath us and wrapping it around her. Letting out a small breath I noticed that my fast movement hadn't disturbed my angel. It was quite amazing that Bella, who looked so innocent most of the time, could seduce a vampire. Thinking back on the look on her face this morning, a look of pure lust, I felt myself tensing up just a little bit causing Bella to stir a little in her sleep once again and me immediately relaxing.

It was still hard for me to not have full control over my movements. All of my family had told me that this also was something which came with finding your mate, the need to always keep your loved one safe and comfortable, that it was the same for all true vampire couples, but I once again it was something I had never experienced before. Since Bella was my mate, my whole being had now been adjusted to her, and my body often moved on its own to adjust itself after hers, to give Bella whatever she needed. It could be a small supporting hand on her back, an embrace when she was sad, or like now, a small movement to make sure she could stay asleep. I had seen in the thoughts around me that Bella did the same thing with me, adjusting herself after my movements so we never were far apart, but I had never noticed it myself if it hadn't been for my ability to read minds and neither had she.

Carlisle had told me long ago, before even Rosalie joined out family, that this was normal behavior for vampires since the pull between two mates made caused them to be in perfect harmony and sync with each other, but Bella wasn't a vampire. It was pretty strange that all of my family, not just I, kept on coming back to this conclusion.

So many things that Bella did, and the way she looked, constantly told us that she was one of our kind, and at the same time our own knowledge and sanity told us that she wasn't. It was confusing and what was even stranger was the fact that the more time we all spent with Bella the more all of our thoughts mixed together, making it harder to hold on to the statement that Bella indeed was human, because she was. Wasn't she?

Bella's POV

I knew that I was asleep when I felt the eagle sitting in tree in front of me and when I felt that Edward was nowhere to be found. The forest wasn't the same as before, now I was standing in the meadow I had just left, but just like before there was no life around me and the silence was pressing. And like before, I stood silent waiting for something to happen. The eagle in front of me put its head to the side as if it was thinking about something before it gave out a small scream and flew over the meadow, landing on my shoulder once again. But this time I reached out my arm in front of me, offering it to the eagle who was sitting on my shoulder. He opened and closed his buck a few times before he gave out a very small cry, carefully moving over my arm so that he was facing me.

When he was in front of me I beamed at him, I had missed him more than I knew. I felt how he got a soft look over his features and in a loving way he reached forward and took a small strand of my hair in his buck, carefully tugging it a little. Letting it go and once again letting out a small cry I moved forward and planted a light kiss on his buck, earning a stroke over my cheek in return.

Bella

Once again the voice I had heard before came back, but this time it was a part of the dream and I could tell that this wasn't Edward. It was the soft voice of a female, a voice I had heard once before.

Bella

I could not tell from where her voice came and I couldn't feel her anywhere, but I felt how the eagle on my arm once again moved up to my shoulder, peeking out from under my hair as he keep on tugging a few strings now and when. I was glad he stayed with me; I didn't want him to go.

Bella

The third time the whispering voice was heard I felt something materializing in front of me out of thin air, but I wasn't afraid. This had happened once before. Back then she had been born out of snow, now she was born out of the wind. The woman in front of me was tall and she was looking down at me and our friend where he sat on my shoulder.

He has missed you

The wind echoed her words, and agreeing the eagle nodded his head.

I have missed him too, My voice was echoing just like hers, I knew that I didn't have to speak here, and I have missed you as well.

The woman smiled a little at this, looking at me with warm eyes. Then she started speaking slowly.

You have come far… and… you have found love… Tell me… have it helped?

Without it I would never have been the one I am today, I can never begin to thank you, or ever pay you back. At this I felt how the eagle dug it claws into my skin and how the woman in front of me got an offended, but at the same time understanding, look.

You have no need to pay us back; we are still in your debt for a long time forward. What you did… saved us both… and this land… You know so… What I gave you… is not enough to repay you… not even a start… I could not give you what you wished for… and therefore I could neither repay you…

To my horror the world around me suddenly started spinning and the eagle on my shoulder left my side with a cry which pierced through my ears, the woman in front of me disappeared in the wind and as I was quickly coming back to the real world I heard her voice stronger than before and full of power.

If anything goes wrong remember! Find us! We can… Her voice died out but I knew what she was about to say, that she could help. In my mind though I tried to scream out to her that I couldn't remember, I couldn't remember where she was and where I could find her. But it was already too late, the dream, or vision or whatever it was, disappeared around as the world became black for a split second.

Then my eyes flew open and I could establish three things.
One: That somehow Edward had managed to wrap me up in the blanket Esme sent.
Two: That Edward was no longer by my side on the ground, but walking around me protectingly.
And three: That we were surrounded by seven enormous growling wolves.

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